Wednesday, October 25, 2006

globeandmail.com: Ottawa to soothe Turks angry over 'genocide' tag

"Ottawa to soothe Turks angry over 'genocide' tag

BRIAN LAGHI

OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF

The federal government has moved to mend fences with Turkey by qualifying its support for a controversial declaration that the Turks perpetrated a genocide against Armenians during the First World War.

The move comes just months after Turkey agreed to take in thousands of Canadians stranded in strife-torn Lebanon and after the Turks protested diplomatically by temporarily removing their ambassador and then pulling out of air exercises taking place in Alberta earlier this summer."

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